Backing up system image of one PC's C drive to other PC's C drive

Under Cygwin under Windows 8.1 Pro x64, I've successfully used:
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/cygdrive/C/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/WINDOWSPOWERSHELL/V1.0/powershell.exe -command 'C:\Windows\Sysnative\wbAdmin start backup -backupTarget:X: -include:C: -quiet -vssFull -allCritical'
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to backup a PC onto an external drive, run with elevated privileges as a scheduled task.
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However, our current Thinkpad Carbon X1 laptops only have one hard drive, and I'd rather not backup onto other external drives. *Our 240 GB SSDs have room to support one or two images. *I'd like to store a system image of each laptop under a "backup" folder on the other laptop, running the following three lines with elevated privileges as a scheduled task.
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net use X: "\\OtherLaptop\backup"
/cygdrive/C/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/WINDOWSPOWERSHELL/V1.0/powershell.exe -command 'C:\Windows\Sysnative\wbAdmin start backup -backupTarget:X: -include:C: -exclude:C:\backup -quiet -vssFull -allCritical'
net use X: /DELETE
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This is not an experiment I'd like to do without getting some feedback as to how I might mess up one or both laptops.
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Thanks.
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Lester

Networking the various laptops together is the only thing I can come up with.
As to how one would successfully do that with your specific setup, well, someone else would have to chime in
with more detail.

You would be far better off getting yourself a small 1TB passport drive to image the
relevant computers with than going through the trouble with all the above tinkering.

Last edited by CLiNT; 2014-03-06 at 20:05.

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